Qur’anic exegesis is a literary activity whose function is the elucidation of the clear and ambiguous aspects of the Scripture and its major principles. Schools of exegesis constitute a major discipline in Qur’anic studies referred to in Arabic as manahij al-tafsir, meaning ‘methodologies of exegesis’. Qur’anic exegesis has gone through a historical marathon journey that has lasted fourteen centuries, from the seventh to the end of the twentieth century. The present book delineates precisely the odyssey of the birth, development and growth of Qur’anic exegesis and its various schools. This book, however, is not merely a historiographical account of the development of exegesis but rather a methodologically academic investigation of the genesis and proliferation of the discipline and techniques of exegesis.
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